The Old Front Line

By: Paul Reed
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  • Walk the battlefields of the First World War with Military Historian, Paul Reed. In these podcasts, Paul brings together over 40 years of studying the Great War, from the stories of veterans he interviewed, to when he spent more than a decade living on the Old Front Line in the heart of the Somme battlefields.

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  • Questions and Answers Episode 27

    Questions and Answers Episode 27
    Apr 12 2025

    Our questions and answers in this episode look at what happened to trench systems when they met a road, was the Battle of the Somme a victory, how France remembers the Great War, and the role of the Army Service Corps in the conflict.

    Somme Book Recommendations: Gary Sheffield Forgotten Victory and also Paddy Griffith Battle Tactics on the Western Front.

    Book Recommendations: Michael Young Postcards of the Army Service Corps and Michael Young Army Service Corps 1902-1918.

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    38 mins
  • Ypres: The Menin Road

    Ypres: The Menin Road
    Apr 5 2025

    Continuing our journeys along the roads which crisscross the landscape of the Western Front, we travel to Flanders in Belgium, and take the old Roman road between the city of Ypres and the town of Menin which follows the story of four years of conflict here in the First World War and discuss once more the 'culture' of The Old Front Line.

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Questions and Answers Episode 26

    Questions and Answers Episode 26
    Mar 29 2025

    This week we discuss the background to the names British soldiers gave their German counterparts - names like Fritz and Bosch - we examine the role Portugal had on the Western Front and discuss where they are memorialised, look out how modern development has changed The Old Front Line and who was Princess Patricia of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry?

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    38 mins

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Fascinating and engaging

Paul Reed, a battlefield guide, makes learning about the First World War easy and interesting. His easy conversational style brings the battlefields, the events and the individual soldiers vividly to life in front of the listener, and his passion for the subject really shines through.

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